Writing

Everyday fine motor play in preschool and a linky

February 4, 2012

Discover ways to promote fine motor development and the role fine motor skills in handwriting.

Heart and hand prints in the salt tray in prek

January 27, 2012

Adding to the salt box and a few tips on making the salt box experience more successful in preschool!

Printing in the salt tray in prek

January 21, 2012

Using the salt trays to promote name recognition and pre-writing skills in PreK!

Everyday dramatic play in preschool and a linky

January 15, 2012

Dramatic play leads to wonderful opportunities in learning and development. Check out our simple office and come join in the dramatic play linky too!

Christmas cards in the writing center in preschool

December 11, 2011

Adding Christmas cards to the writing center had led to all kinds of opportunities to write and create!

Ghost writing in preschool

October 21, 2011

See our booootiful ghost writings we made in preschool!

Teach Preschool in the news: Promoting prewriting skills

September 22, 2011

Teach Preschool in the news: Deborah shares how to promote prewriting skills for young children in this Fox 59 news segment!

Paint and write boards for preschoolers

September 22, 2011

A fun and creative tool for promoting writing skills in preschool!

The tools we write with in preschool

September 8, 2011

Use a variety of tools to help children build their writing skills!

Mini-plexiglass easels for the preschool classroom

August 18, 2011

Mini-Plexiglass Easels are a terrific tool for inviting young children to color and write!

Writing the letter of the week

February 11, 2011

Each week, when a new letter is introduced, the teacher invites each child to come up and try to print the letter on the dry erase board. The teacher begins by printing a capital and lower case letter on the board first – she identifies each letter as she is writing them for the children [...]

Messing around with the color brown in preschool

January 15, 2011

As part of our color review week, the children tried out a little brown finger painting but instead of using brown paint, they used chocolate pudding. After mixing up a bowl of chocolate pudding, they dipped their fingers in the pudding and began making brown pudding prints on a piece of paper… To this point [...]

Rainbow tracing in preschool

October 25, 2010

Rainbow tracing is a simple technique for helping children work on their fine motor skills, eye-hand coordination, and beginning writing skills. The technique is fairly simple. You give each child at least three different colors of crayons and a shape, number or letter to trace. The children begin by tracing the shape with their finger. [...]